Word: self-help
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...biologist, I was quick to recognize that although effortlessness is unusual in "self-help" techniques, it is very common in nature. In fact, our physical growth from fertilized egg to 60- or 70-kilo, highly differentiated, adult requires little if any conscious effort on our part. This whole immensely complicated process is automatic. Thus, a simple, effortless technique said to be merely a way to optimize nature's own fundamental laws of progress did not seem to contradict anything in the biological world, so I decided to give...
NEIGHBORHOODS. Self-help groups that band together to upgrade their neighborhoods will be able to apply for federal grants totaling as much as $100 million in the coming fiscal year...
Students whose grants are reduced will receive larger self-help packages consisting of a loan and an employment opportunity, she said...
...seen if Uncle Ed can cope with the city's problems all by himself. The borough of Brooklyn can't be saved by people in Washington, or Albany, or even Manhattan; it has to save itself at the grass roots level, through community organizations and the spirit of self-help. That spark of life just doesn't seem to be present anymore...
That is quite a reach for a 19-year-old organization that was once widely admired and imitated as a seemingly successful program for rehabilitating alcoholics and drug addicts. Dederich established a nononsense, self-help program that included the "game," a rugged encounter session in which participants acted out their inmost hostilities. Learning the truth about themselves supposedly helped them stay off drugs or booze. But in recent years, Dederich has had more grandiose ambitions and transformed Synanon into a religious cult with himself as high priest and prophet. It now attracts fewer addicts and more middle-class eccentrics...